Four-year-old Keenan Young, right, of Lyons plays with a water toy before tubing the St. Vrain River with his mother at Meadow Park in Lyons on Monday, July 5, 2010. 2010. (Richard M. Hackett/Times-Call)

Marshall Counts, right, of Lubbock, Texas, guides Gavin Hanson of Fort Collins into a parking spot at Meadow Park in Lyons on Monday, July 5, 2010. The friends arrived for an afternoon of tubing on the St. Vrain River. (Richard M. Hackett/Times-Call)

Kim Knake and his wife Sue Connelly have been firing off their 1857 Napoleon three-quarter scale replica cannon with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra as they perform the 1812 overture on the Fourth of July in Longmont. Kim fires the cannon at his Longmont home Friday, July 2, 2010. (Joshua Buck/Times-Call)

Kim Knake and his wife Sue Connelly have been firing off their 1857 Napoleon three-quarter scale replica cannon with the Longmont Symphony Orchestra as they perform the 1812 overture on the Fourth of July in Longmont. Kin prepares the cannon for a test firing at his Longmont home Friday, July 2, 2010. (Joshua Buck/Times-Call)

Participants gather around a Longmont Station 6 firetruck after the Fourth of July parade in the Creekside neighborhood Sunday morning July 4, 2010. This image is a digital composite of six separate photos. (Lewis Geyer/Times-Call)

Arizona resident Betty Ward attends the annual Fourth of July celebration at Thompson Park Sunday July 4, 2010. Ward has made it a point to attend the event while she visits her daughter, Kim King and her family, of Longmont. (Lewis Geyer/Times-Call)